The Patent Scam Intro

Why HN readers recommended it

HN commenters pass it around as an eye-opening first-hand account of patent trolling and the Texas courts that favor it.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Austin Meyer

Topic

patent trolls

Format

commentary

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

6

HN mentions in dataset

8

Recommendation years in dataset

2016–2022

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• This is great. Would like to see more of these kinds of efforts. Just watched The Patent Scam video by Austin Meyer (developer of X-Plane flight sim who was sued by patent trolls). [VIDEO] That kind of stuff makes my blood boil.

• This video from Austin Meyer (creator of X-Plane) is pretty eye-opening: [VIDEO] Apparently there are TWO judges in the district, BOTH of whose own sons are lawyers in the same district. And BOTH sons handle a lot of the patent litigation, in front of their …

• So there is a judge out there, and his son is a practicing lawyer who reps. PT and PT victims. Basically legal racketeering. It would be interesting to see emails dumped from these guys, and how much corruption is taking place. [VIDEO] its like 5 …